Born 2nd March 1982 in Rio de Janeiro. He is a German, Panamanian, Brazilian, Hungarian football player who started his career playing for the Brazilian club Serrano FC Petropolis when he was 6 years old. Later he played for Las Promesas Panama before coming to Germany in 1997 and playing in VfB Stuttgart’s B youth team. In 2001 he signed his first contract for VfB’s professional team and in the 2002/2003 season of the Bundesliga he was the best German goal scorer being one of the reasons for VfB Stuttgart finished second in the league.